Garment clip



prfl 7, 1936 W. IR. TELLER m- AL GARMENT C Filed y 1934 INVENTORSWit-LIAM RTE ENTHALE Aoowr-Lfiggm. TODD ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 7, 1936NlTED STATES PATENT OFFIQE GARMENT CLIP York Application May 21, 1934,Serial No. 726,794

1 Claim.

The invention relates to improvements in attaching clasps and the likeand has particular reference to an affixing means arranged as afastening, adjusting, anchoring means for use in connection withsupporting tapes and straps forming part of the various womens nethergarments, together with its designed utility with relation to garters,sanitary belts and similar articles of wear.

The object of the invention resides in the providing of a single claspor buckle structure provided with an apertured supporting body havingfastened thereto an attaching tape arranged to be attached to a garment,or other portion of tape or band, the upper section of said aperturedbody having hingeably mounted or disposed thereon a clamping member ofany designed contour, having formed thereon beneath the hinged portionthereof a cam or off-centered boss adapted to either a tape, strand orband of the supporting element of the garment, is interwoven through theapertured body thereof, to lock and clamp the attaching clasp inadjustable relation with the garment and the supporting elementtherefor.

In the following there is described the general embodiment of theinvention, the features thereof being more clearly defined hereinafterin the claim.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is an elevation of the clasps disposed on thesupporting straps or tapes of a nether or other garment; Fig. 2 is aface elevation of the clasp or clamping buckle; Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional View of the clasp taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4is an elevation of the clasp showing the clamping member thereof in itsopen position to more clearly indicate the hinged attaching means andthe cam portion thereof for afiixing the clasp in adjustable relationwith the tape to be disposed therein.

In the drawing forming part hereof, similar numerals of referenceindicate similar parts throughout the several views thereof.

In the drawing I designates a slip or other nether garment havingsupporting shoulder straps or tapes 2, and 3, a pair of attaching claspscarrying tabs 4, the latter of which is stitched to or otherwise afiixedto the garment I. Said tabs 4 need not necessarily be aifixed to garmentl, since same be fastened thereto by any other desirable media.

The clasp or adjustable attaching means comprise a body 5 having formedtherein upper slotted aperture 6, central aperture l and lower aperture8, the upper edge of the latter being serrated at 9 to receive andanchor the attaching tab 4. The top bar I!) is formed in body H of claspand 3 has mounted thereon a clamp member l2 by means of hinges I3 andhas formed on its edge adjacent to and between said hinges l3 a cam oroff-centered boss M, which latter serves as the anchoring means when inits closed position for the structure. Supporting strap 2 is lacedthrough the body I l of the supporting means by passing same through theupper aperture 6 over the bar l5 thereof and through the centralaperture 1 and depends freely therefrom, and clamp body I2 is snappedinto position bringing cam l s' down upon and into engagement with strap2 at It to grip and bind said strap 2 against cross bar I 5 to securelyhold same into adjustable relation with the member to which it isattached,

thusly producing a satisfactory fastening means wherein no metal touchesthe skin of the wearer; and one eliminating any raised or bulgingsurfaces by reason of its application.

It is obvious that the structure constituting the invention herein maybe varied in many ways without departing from the general spirit ofsame.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is:

A device of the character described comprising a supporting bucklemember having formed therein an upper, a lower and an intermediate slotto produce therein a series of parallel bars, a clasp hingedly mountedon the top bar provided on its inside surface with a cam-lug, teethformed on the inside edge or" the bottom bar, a tape forming part of anether garment passing through the lower slot and supported on saidteeth of the bottom bar, and a supporting strap threaded through theupper slot and thence through the intermediate slot, and being free onthe inside of said buckle and in engagement with the tape in said lowerslot, said clasp being arranged when closed to force said cam-lug onsaid strap and against the second upper bar of said buckle said claspmember being so disposed that when closed it contacts said tape of thenether garment supporting means.

WILLIAM R. TELLER. ADOLPH FRANKEN'IHALER. WALLACE S. TODD.

